Check out a module and name the root directory different

$ cvs checkout -d localDirName remoteModuleName
<snip>
$ ls
$ localDirName

By default

$ cvs checkout remoteModuleName
<snip>
$ ls
remoteModuleName

.cvsignore

To ignore a subdirectory subdir in directory dir

• delete text D/subdir//// if it exists from file ../dir/CVS/Entries

• add text subdir in file ../dir/.cvsignore

• refresh cvs status -l

Replace a file with the latest version from the repository

cvs update -C someFile

References

• Open Source Development with CVS

External links